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<p>Dear NRHC Family,</p>

<p>Thank you so much for a powerful Easter celebration at NRHC! Because of your giving, serving, and inviting, we saw 
almost 1100 people join us for Easter at NRHC! All 3 services were packed and full of energy in the auditorium and in 
our NRHkids environments.</p>

<p>The best part of all…by God's grace, people responded to the gospel and placed their faith in Jesus as Savior! Death 
to life!</p>

<p>To all who served so well, THANK YOU! There is no way we could have hosted all these people without you using your 
gifts and energy to serve. God used you!</p>

<p>To all who give generously week after week, THANK YOU! There is no way we can do ministry without your giving. Your 
giving provides the environments and resources for people to hear and respond to the gospel.</p>

<p>To all who invited and brought people with you, THANK YOU! We pray that the seeds planted on Sunday will produce new 
life in those you invited and brought.</p>

<p>Guess what? We get to do it all over again this week and every week after that until Jesus returns! <b>Easter is not 
just a celebration for one day a year, it is a VICTORY and REALITY we live in every day of the year.</b> Continue giving, 
serving, and inviting; God is using you to reach many with the gospel and there are many more to be reached.</p>

<p>Exciting days are ahead, church. Trying to do church with 1100 people in a building designed to hold about 400 is a 
unique challenge and a good problem to have. Let's continue to move forward in our vision to see our world changed by 
the gospel ONE LIFE AT A TIME and ask God to give us wisdom and unity for what's next.</p>

<p>I love you and love what God is doing! See you Sunday.</p>

<p>Until All Hear,<br> Jay</p>
